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are we talking about a big difference here, richard? >> it is a big difference. when we're talking about job recovery, it has not been kind to the different sexes. women trail men by 1 mill general jobs and men on the other hand saw a big spike of over 700,000 jobs. that's the 1 million right there. that is not common when you take a look at recoveries in the last four decades. recovery are normally better to women. not in this case. some women are doing better. white women, if you look at this category, saw their unemployment rate drop. that's good. that's during the recovery. but asian, black, and hispanics, those women saw unemployment rise during this same recovery period in the last two years. what might explain this historical blip is not known. men lost three million jobs more than women in the recession. you can see the difference here. this is three million jobs of a difference. but even with these gains, men still lag women by two million jobs from prerecession levels if you were to do the numbers. certain job sectors have more women than men and vice v
are we talking about a big difference here, richard? >> it is a big difference. when we're talking about job recovery, it has not been kind to the different sexes. women trail men by 1 mill general jobs and men on the other hand saw a big spike of over 700,000 jobs. that's the 1 million right there. that is not common when you take a look at recoveries in the last four decades. recovery are normally better to women. not in this case. some women are doing better. white women, if you look...
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do you think the president will get his big package? an alternative smaller plan? or is it possible a deal doesn't get done at all? >> i'm really surprised it would be senate republicans that would have some light at the end of the tunnel, and i hope it's not another train. but it seems as though this alternative plan b could remove the threat of the economy of the united states just losing all faith and credit by the inability of the president to pay our debts, that is the nation's debt, not his. we still are hopeful that there is an opportunity for us to protect the vulnerable, the aged and the sick, and that at the same time bring some equity and reform to our tax system. but in the house of representatives, the republicans have no unity of purpose. they're having such a problem over there that there's nothing that democrats in the house can really vote for. >> let me ask you about that very specifically, because so much has been made of this rift between john boehner and eric cantor. let me play this for you. >> let me just say, we have been in this fight toget
do you think the president will get his big package? an alternative smaller plan? or is it possible a deal doesn't get done at all? >> i'm really surprised it would be senate republicans that would have some light at the end of the tunnel, and i hope it's not another train. but it seems as though this alternative plan b could remove the threat of the economy of the united states just losing all faith and credit by the inability of the president to pay our debts, that is the nation's debt,...
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so much money comes if big money. you don't raise that kind of money without big money. but do you need to be able to say as a candidate, i'm getting 10 and 20 and 100 donations from the little people? is that critical in terms of a perception? >> definitely. you see ron paul in 2008 was really able to become a contender from his small donations. what mitt romney has to worry about is organize in new hampshire and iowa. twitter and face book are important parts of the campaign but not crucial. but president obama having his town hall today, he sais sendina signal to mitt romney. you better be able to compete with me on facebook and twitter. you better be able to have a presence here. mitt romney doesn't have to be as strong. but whoever wins the nomination will have a real competitor in barack obama. >> he got the 5 and $10 donations in 2008. that was the message sent early on. he dwarfed -- the money he's already made, you are talking about mitt romney, please. >> yeah. you add up all republicans, they don't equal what he did this quarter. we'll see the final numbers g
so much money comes if big money. you don't raise that kind of money without big money. but do you need to be able to say as a candidate, i'm getting 10 and 20 and 100 donations from the little people? is that critical in terms of a perception? >> definitely. you see ron paul in 2008 was really able to become a contender from his small donations. what mitt romney has to worry about is organize in new hampshire and iowa. twitter and face book are important parts of the campaign but not...
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these are a lot of big companies. and they're also trying to compete with google which just recently came out with its big social network. >> google plus. >> exactly. >> is the timing a coincidence? >> i don't think so. think there's alt more to it than by the way, we're coming out with this awesome project. google is really pushing into the social space. they haven't had a lot of success with it up until now. but with google plus which they're rolling out very slowly have been trying it over the last few days or so. a very limited release. one of the thing's that's offered is called hangout where you can offer your people in your network a chance to have a video chat. and that's one of the things that people are paying attention to. the idea that you can have this videoconference through google plus. and so that is a direct competitor when you're talking about having skype in facebook. and there's a lot of money at stake. >> billions and billions of dollars. >> exactly. millions of eyeballs, hundreds of millions of e
these are a lot of big companies. and they're also trying to compete with google which just recently came out with its big social network. >> google plus. >> exactly. >> is the timing a coincidence? >> i don't think so. think there's alt more to it than by the way, we're coming out with this awesome project. google is really pushing into the social space. they haven't had a lot of success with it up until now. but with google plus which they're rolling out very slowly...
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chunk. >> it's a big churng. so customers who currently pay $10 a month for one dvd, and unlimited streaming, i don't know if you do that are now going to have to pay $16. and if you choose one or the other, it's going to be $8. so understandably, people are not happy about that. but, you know, on the facebook page they're saying they're going to rely more on online options. where are they going to go is the question? there's a little bit of corporate competition going on with blockbuster quickly sending out a press release and saying, well, we have a service, by the way, or you can go to our stores, which actually nobody goes to. and they have about 1.2 million subscribers, versus 23 million on netflix. blockbuster reminds me a little bit about how polaroid missed the whole digital revolution. >> it's going to be interesting to follow, though, because we've seen that a lot of people have been cutting their cable bills, and this may be another way that they feel like they have to save money. >> right. >> happy me
chunk. >> it's a big churng. so customers who currently pay $10 a month for one dvd, and unlimited streaming, i don't know if you do that are now going to have to pay $16. and if you choose one or the other, it's going to be $8. so understandably, people are not happy about that. but, you know, on the facebook page they're saying they're going to rely more on online options. where are they going to go is the question? there's a little bit of corporate competition going on with blockbuster...
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he is attending a big two-day summit with 200 big-money donors. some have not picked a horse in the 2012 race. >>> for new york city mayor rudy giuliani, expecting to make his decision soon. as bad as the national unemployment rate is, 9.2%, it's much worse among veterans. 11.5% of those who served since 9/11 are out of work. for 18 to 24-year-old male vets it's nearly 22%. that disturbing trend is the trigger for new legislation. new york senator kristen gillibrand joins me now. >> good to talk to you. >> what do you think can be done to fix this? those numbers are horrifying. >> they are terrible. if 1-5 of our young vets are out of work, we need to do something about it. this bill gives them more training before they separate from the military, which would allow them to have access to job training, resume writing and learning to interview. it helps them to translate what they learned in the military to the kind of work employers want. if somebody is a tank operator, an employer might not know what that means. if he define that as expert in hydr
he is attending a big two-day summit with 200 big-money donors. some have not picked a horse in the 2012 race. >>> for new york city mayor rudy giuliani, expecting to make his decision soon. as bad as the national unemployment rate is, 9.2%, it's much worse among veterans. 11.5% of those who served since 9/11 are out of work. for 18 to 24-year-old male vets it's nearly 22%. that disturbing trend is the trigger for new legislation. new york senator kristen gillibrand joins me now....
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